Winter is coming… eventually.
Those holding their breath for the latest — and final — season of Game of Thrones will have to wait a bit longer.
It was expected that the final foray to Westeros would take place around April 2019 as has been the month in which most of the excursions occur.
But visual effects supervisor for the series, Joe Bauer, has not put what appears to be a dragon-sized spanner in the works.
“We’re going to be toiling away on Season 8 until May of 2019, so it’s eight or nine months away,” he said in an interview with Huffington Post.
The cast of the HBO drama has already wrapped filming, with all technical aspects now being performed to transform green screen into dragons and direwolves.
The result is that we likely won’t see season 8 until much later in 2019 in order to make the show eligible for the 2020 Emmy Awards.
We have no doubt that it will be worth the wait.
